New laws signal security clampdown in Ukraine
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- Radicalisation of protests
- New legislation
- Violent resistance
- Vandalism
- Extremism
- 'Foreign agents' and dissent
- Western reaction
- Russian reaction
- Full-scale enforcement unlikely
- Immediate crackdown improbable
- Psychological intimidation
- Cooperation with the opposition
- Longer-term tightening of screws
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_350.jpg "Opposition leader Vitaly Klitschko is sprayed with a powder fire extinguisher during a rally in Kiev (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)")